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Festival Senses
Lovers of fine food and drink won’t want to miss the culinary wonders of Chef Fest 2019. BY SHEILA GIBSON STOODLEY PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANNA PACHECO
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efore you see it, you smell it. Cocktail in hand, you wheel around and stride across Hawai‘i’s idyllic Kumukea Beach in search of the source
of the mouthwatering aroma. Almost instantly, you spot chef Andy Ricker, founder of the Pok Pok restaurants in Oregon and New York and an expert in Northern Thai cuisine. He’s standing behind a grill and roasting a fish—whole—while preparing a chili dipping sauce to go with it. It’s a salt-crusted moi, a native delicacy known as the “fish of kings” because it was once
Chef Fest 2018’s reception and
forbidden to all but Hawaiian royalty. You’re now
cookout at Kumukea Beach.
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